[SOLVED] getting day of week from user defined date?

[adamhhh]

is there a way to do this?

 

e.g. i have three drop down boxes in html asking the user for day (1-31), month, year (2007 or 2008)

 

i then have

 

// get user input
$start_day = $_POST["start_day"];
$start_month = $_POST["start_month"];
$start_year = $_POST["start_year"];
//echo $start_year;

$the_date = $start_day . "/" . $start_month . "/" . $start_year;
echo $the_date;

 

say then i get an output as 13/10/2007 if the user enters that date, is there a way to get what day of the week this is?

[aebstract]

I think, and I am going to try and test this, but this may work:

 

$timestamp = mktime ($start_month, $start_day, $start year);
$day = date('l', $timestamp);
echo "$day";

 

 

 

edit: tested and it should work.

[adamhhh]

hmm still trying to get that to work, its telling me every day is tuesday at the moment

 

what does the 1 stand for?

[ted_chou12]

how about:

 

<?php
$timestamp = strtotime("$start year-$start_month-$start_day");
$day = date('l', $timestamp);
echo "$day";
?>

[aebstract]

The "1" is an "l" Lower Case L.

 

Actually, you're right about the day though. Something is telling it to only check with today's date. The lowercase L tells the date function to display the day of the week, full word.

[aebstract]

Yay, ted's method worked. I guess it was the mktime that was setting it to today's date?

[adamhhh]

thanks for your help guys, i used

 

$new_date = date("l", mktime(0, 0, 0, $start_month, $start_day, $start_year));

 

in the end which works great.